I agree with you Ryland, however I'm GUESSING it takes more energy to recycle plastic than it does to make new? You also have to look at the economics of the whole process, how much fuel/energy does it take to produce a gallon of the end result? If it would be a break even...it may be worth it from a "impact on the planet" perspective. OR just recycle it all! :-)
Interesting Article from Cambridge-MIT
http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/impee/top...20v3%20PDF.pdf
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Originally Posted by Ryland
How do they manage to produce so much plastic trash? I suspect that a system like that would not work here because people here want to get paid to much.
It also seems like recycling plastic in to new plastic would be better then turning oil in to plastic then turning the plastic back in to oil.
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